How has real life religion influenced your games?

yep, it's taught me not to teach any cleric, druid or paladin.

I'm inclined to include a memetic threat like the Cult of Kek in my next Lovecraft-inspired game

>Not making your Cultists Aztecs but with Gods that actually exist and thirst for blood
Do you even metal Senpai?

kickstarter.com/projects/828401966/blasphemous-dark-and-brutal-2d-non-linear-platform/description

blasphemousgame.com

I have a Jewish guy in my group who will take off of sessions for Jewish holidays on game night.

Right around the time I started taking a interest in Christianity a friend of mine invited me to a game he was DMing set in a zombie apocalypse. I decided to make a preacher. I wanted to play a diplomatic character anyway but it also allowed me to speak out my current thoughts. Since no one knew of my actual interest in religion they assumed I was simply doing a good job at role-playing.

Not entirely off, though there's some connection with the other Caucasus peoples. Top god is Aramazd, sky/creator god. Then there's Vahagn, warrior/fire god and dragon slayer god, Nane, basically Athena, Tiur, god of knowledge/culture/science/magic, Spandaramet, underworld/death god, Tsovinar, storm/sea goddess, Mihr, sun/forge god, and Anahit, fertility goddess. Those are the big ones.

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They still existed before Christianity. Also, like everywhere, some of them converted in name only.

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Aztecs make for great evil villains too.

Good thing we exterminated them IRL.

There are 200,000 monolingual Nahuatl speakers in Mexico.

I'm getting Prince of Persia flashbacks

>inspired by the Inquisition and Catholic bloodlust
So you're a righteous paladin?

Yep.

Meet the PC

Shiiit, this is what 40k was about before it turned into marine porn.

It really seems more like an average day in the Empire desu

Well, I avoid christian motifs and notions because there are people who still think D&D is Satan.

Other than that, just as basis for the fluff. To reach the afterlife and rescue the soul of their dead friend so he revives, one needs a pretty good greco-roman sacrifice, "good" depending on you actually losing something of worth to you.

Aztecs actually believed they were the HEROES in fact. Their beliefs pretty much went that either they sacrificed to their Gods, or the world would be consumed by giant skeletal star demons with rattlesnakes for penises. In their own eyes, they were saving the world.

He's a fucking Redemptionist from Necromunda. Fuck yes.

Demons which were, incidentally, also godesses of fertility.

Not so different from real females.

>giant skeletal star demons with rattlesnakes for penises.

Holy shit that's metal. Crusade?

>Implying they weren't right.
>Implying the Skeleton War meme isn't the collective unconscious knowing the truth.
Dear god what have we done.

Real females usually don't have rattlesnakes for penises, and don't drain the life from the world simply by existing.

I'm not entirely convinced about that second one.

"Ah yes, my child, I remember the tales of those days. Yes, the beginning of mankind's crusade across the stars in search of giant skeleton star demons with rattlesnake penises so that we might exterminate them. Many species were wiped out along the way, but it was all for the salvation of the universe. Up now child, your shift is beginning."

Catholic, so more than my players are comfortable with usually.

I'd hope the answer to this is yes because holy fuck religion can get pretty metal.

Especially the more obscure Christian/Judaic things that aren't exactly considered canon.

I don't think any Crusader would be capable of fighting those things. They were fuck off huge, and the Gods needed constant sacrifice just to keep them from devouring the world. They would probably be a bit much for the average Crusader

WE WILL MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE IN ZEAL

THE FALSE GODS WERE WEAK, HELD NO CONVICTION

SERVANTS OF THE TRUE SHALL NOT BREAK

Underrated

That's pretty awesome. It's like if Dark Souls was a 2d platformer and had a lot more religious symbolism.
I'm done with kickstarting games, but I'm looking forward to when it gets done.

Fucking Af and Hemah are metal as all hell.

Barev aper

I would agree, this is my first pledge since years long past, but I played their last game on Kongregate and it was a pixel horror point and click. Dealt with some Lovecraftian themes, and was earnestly kinda spooky.

I spent 500 bucks because I'm thirsty for them stretch goals

>first Christians
No, those would be the Jews Jesus spoke directly to.

It's $20. I'd almost pay that much just for the gifs produced so far.

According to the kickstarter page;
>The Penitent One is the last survivor of a congregation called The Silent Sorrow. The whole group was punished to be thrown to the great Abyss of the Eternal Grief.

>In Blasphemous, you will play as The Penitent One, a rogue nomad tackling the evil of this world alone with only its trusty sword by their side

I can't wait for Lawful Violent

I want to call you out for being a rat faced Shill, but this game looks pretty cool. I love the edgy 90's violence

I typically have a large overarching usually monotheistic Church in my games. Much more fun that way. There's so many plots and background stuff you can include if you have that kind of religious backdrop for your game.

Sauce?

>It's like if Dark Souls was a 2d platformer

You know, Castlevania is a thing right?

This is why you're not allowed to play a paladin, faggot-kun.

WE WILL SNAKE JERUSALEM. DEUS VULT.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This looks more like Ghouls and Goblins than anything else

looking glass knight + wanderer set

Yeah the fashion souls is real in this shit

Yeah, but they didn't venerate him, did they?

How the fuck do you pronounce that?

I use Muslims as a shorthand for Evil.

Sounds dope, I'll definitely be cribbing some names.

What about monsters of note?

Why, /pol/, why?

TseeTseeMeetl?

By having a normal language that pronounces letters the same way no matter the word and pronounces them always as single sounds.
Sorry my Anglo-Saxon/Francophone friend.

Not him
Even fucking Winston Churchill said Muslims were a huge fucking threat not as individuals, but as a whole, anybody who doesn't realize this is going to be in for a hell of a surprise, and I say this as someone who many might call a liberal.

>Winston Churchill
The man who made the ottomans join the enemy by stealing their paid-for military equipment and refusing to refund them? He may have been a good demagogue, but the man was a twit

>Sorry my Anglo-Saxon/Francophone friend.

He wanted to rid the world of them what better way to start than to make them enemies and put them at a disadvantage? because cultural infiltration doesn't work on Muslims, nor do logic and reason, the only way to stop and destroy the fuckers is outright warfare with no rules.

Imagine a door. When you pass through that door, you come across a spiral staircase going down.

The door is life. The spiral staircase is suffering x time. You walking down the stairs is the total sum of the weight of your balls.

Are your balls big enough to see what suffering awaits you in the basement?

No one did; because he never existed- what a tweest

Well, that didn't happen so maybe they were right?

>TseeTseeMeetl?

"tl"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_lateral_affricate

Yeah, the Tlaxcalans were Nahuas, and a good deal of the enemies of the aztecs.

It hasn't; it isn't a good idea to include currently active, major religions in your games, unless you want to ignite some conflict inside the group, even without intending. Sometimes I take elements I find cult from legends associated to abrahamic religions, but with many layers of my own fluff.

twisted and altered Nietzshe's overman philosophy is a prominent cult around the Midlander kingdoms

Why not Zit-zi-mitl?

Twice now I've seen games collapse when two atheists start bickering with each other, because one is an edgelord and the other refuses to become an edgelord. Thankfully, both games where kinda shit.

Also I lost a player of mine because he found out I was a Christian.

How does his religion change anything?

Tz sounds similar to just z but Quetzalcoatl, is how I learned to pronounce those sounds in school and I'm just using that experience to extrapolate.

That's some good shit right there.

>those pope hat giants in the background

More games need shit like this, gigantic monsters in the background that you can't (or eventually can) interact with. That shit makes my dick hard.

It's probably more due to being burned out from polytheistic settings, but most of the major religions in the stuff I run are monotheistic or bitheistic. If a game doesn't have any sort of mechanical aspect behind religion (i.e., it doesn't have clerics), the GM is god and decides which in-universe religion gets his approval, if any at all. Also, I never stat out gods. You try to take them on, they either A) let you "win" or B) smite the fuck out of you.

>anyone that's not looking for a volatile argument - or isn't playing with a group of very close friends - should be well adviced to do the same.
I don't know why so many people are so ragingly autistic about religion in this hobby, but honestly if someone is that cunty and pretentious I'm not interested in playing with them.

If you're not amiable enough to restrain your tard rage about a concept as basic as religion, then I doubt you're amiable enough to restrain your tard rage about other shit and you also lack the charisma to be an engaging player as well.

That's my opinion.

I seriously hope none worship Tlazolteotl

Zoroastrian Duergar, who occasionally quest across the surface world for one of the sacred flames borne of natural lightening.

>Are you a bad enough dude to do God's will?

by using some of them from time to time. To tell the truth i mainly use not-christianity as the big bad evil church, mainly because it's mythology is fucked up and it is one on the few religions to actually have something akin to a evil empire at one point in time(before some people start screaming mudshits, i dont think mudshits were as wacked and at the same time as organized as christianity has been, maybe isis now, but im not all that shure about it). I once did a modern time campaing where there were a few "wiccan" cherecters that got totaly slaughtered by a bunch of real druids, it was a fun campaing though i lost a few freinds because of "not respecting their belifes". One of them threw a curse on me from what i remember, jokes on her im jewish and someone stole all her money like a year later so i think my sheckle magic is stronger

Huh, I listened to the recording on Wikipedia and it sounds more like a "chuh" sound. Why the hell is it represented in English as "tl"?

english language is a nonsensical creation of Nyrlathothep made solely to mock mankind and popularised for the same purpose

>source
Any major "European" city these days. Look in the classified ads.

Tbf it was romanized by the Spanish, they're the ones who decided to spell it like that.

>Yours is the helmet that will pierce the Heavens!

But other than that, I guess I'm interested.

That's literally bizarro zoroastrianism. Not that this is bad or even weird.

It's supposed to evoke the hoods of processioners

>Aztecs actually believed they were the HEROES
I know it's hard to believe with now masochistic Western society is, but most thriving cultures don't usually consider themselves villains.

Armenia was the first christian STATE. The first christian individuals were ovbviously jews living under Rome and after that greeks living under Rome. The other faggot either doesn't know jack shit or is trolling.

If it were a ceremonial robe, I might take it seriously, but for now I'm just wondering if you can impale someone by running head first into them.

>first christian state
>what is holy roman empire
>what is fucking rome
>what is most of european medieval countries

Well, I played a shitload of In Nomine years ago and loved just ripping into religious lore for ideas and context, but my recent game has taken a pretty religious bent since the players in game kind of accidentally started to turn the world into a divine plane, and some kid into the next God.

user, in the game you fight a fucking stabat mater dolorosa deamon and what looks like the antychrist being held up by a tree. Stop looking for realizm in a game that is sopse to be "epic" and over the top